So, after seeing the movie last month (which was excellent), I decided to read the original graphic novels from which Scott Pilgrim was spawned
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Yeah, I mean, the movie and the final graphic novel were released within a few weeks of each other, so things had to have been in the can well before, so to speak.
It's not so much the events of the ending that I had issue with as much as the pacing and the way it was all explained. Again, not that it was bad; just that it wasn't as good as all the rest.
Yeah, the movie is basically an abridged version that keeps all the action and all the goofy one-liners (and adds an hefty handful of additional punny groaners) and cuts about 40% of the cast and 60% of the character development.
Which, honestly, for a six-book-to-112-minute-film conversion, is pretty good!
A number of scenes also inevitably came across as cheezier in live-action format because there are just some things you can get away with more easily in text/comic form. Speaking a line aloud subjects it to stricter scrutiny in general, I think.
But glad to hear you liked the books (issues with the ending notwithstanding)!
Someone who agrees with me on the ending of the Scott Pilgrim books!
Actually, most everyone in my house agrees, so it's not that rare. I thought the endings were fine, but as you said, not up to the rest of the standard that was set.
The movie was great, though 'abridged'.
Also, be afraid. I just bought your second(?) book at that european con I went to and caught SARS from. I shall read it when I have recovered.
Don't believe him. He only suffered for a few days from a common cold. Everyone else he came into contact with has since come down with the martian death plague.
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It's not so much the events of the ending that I had issue with as much as the pacing and the way it was all explained. Again, not that it was bad; just that it wasn't as good as all the rest.
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Which, honestly, for a six-book-to-112-minute-film conversion, is pretty good!
A number of scenes also inevitably came across as cheezier in live-action format because there are just some things you can get away with more easily in text/comic form. Speaking a line aloud subjects it to stricter scrutiny in general, I think.
But glad to hear you liked the books (issues with the ending notwithstanding)!
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Not just in the series, but ever.
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Actually, most everyone in my house agrees, so it's not that rare. I thought the endings were fine, but as you said, not up to the rest of the standard that was set.
The movie was great, though 'abridged'.
Also, be afraid. I just bought your second(?) book at that european con I went to and caught SARS from. I shall read it when I have recovered.
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Typhoid Ruadh!
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